Lead Solutions Architect
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Lead Solutions Architect for Solana Foundation, focusing on institutional blockchain adoption and technical strategy. Engage with tier-1 financial institutions to establish trusted relationships and drive standards.
Responsibilities:
- Engaging at the executive level: serve as the technical counterpart to CTOs, Chief Architects, and engineering leadership at tier-1 institutions, establishing credibility and trust in complex sales cycles
- Driving standards and best practices: identify, create (directly or through coordination with external development teams), and drive ecosystem-wide adoption of institutional standards including tokenization of common asset types, institutional trading, compliance tooling, and institutional custody architectures
- Building strategic relationships: cultivate deep technical relationships with custodians, tokenization engines, exchanges, prime brokers, and asset managers. Navigate complex organizational structures to build champion networks and influence multi-stakeholder decision processes
- Providing hands-on technical leadership: design reference architectures, drive institutional-grade documentation, and develop ROI models tailored to institutional decision-makers. Partner with business development to navigate 6-18 month sales cycles and institutional procurement requirements
Requirements:
- 6+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years in institutional or enterprise environments
- Proven track record of defining and executing technical roadmaps with measurable impact
- Deep expertise in institutional infrastructure: custody solutions, financial products, compliance adherence, trading systems, or settlement infrastructure
- Experience engaging with C-level executives and navigating complex enterprise sales cycles with multiple stakeholder approval processes
- Understanding of institutional business models, enterprise integration patterns and operational requirements
- Strong understanding of security frameworks, compliance requirements, and audit processes in regulated financial services
- Experience with Rust, Go, Java, or other systems programming languages in production environments
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical decisions across organizations and credibly represent complex technical topics to both technical and business stakeholders
- Track record of shipping production systems that handle institutional-grade requirements.


















